Hello,

New machine will be ready tonight, so I'm just curious what I would do to save settings/set-up etc in MSFS2020?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

I just went through this. I copied over some addons from my community folder but mostly just started over. 
in a nice surprise all of my hardware settings ported over when started up MSFS being backed up in the cloud  

my only regret was installing both 2020 and 2024. I should have just installed 2024. Would have saved a bunch of hassles in directing software to the right folders. 
 

what are your machine specs?

Edited April 16, 20251 yr by MarkW

Yeah, I guess most of the payware (unless it's either ORBX or Contrail), should be reinstalled. I'm glad that settings, including graphics and views, would be retained.

Thank gawd for the cloud! Hours and hours saved trying to figure out what you did last time. 

2 minutes ago, St Mawgan said:

Thank gawd for the cloud! Hours and hours saved trying to figure out what you did last time. 

Could you please elaborate? what exactly did you move to cloud? 

20 minutes ago, G-YMML1 said:

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Simply put your old drives into the new machine. No reason to install everything from scratch.

1 minute ago, G-YMML1 said:

Could you please elaborate? what exactly did you move to cloud? 

I didn't move anything, Asobo did. The last time I switched to a new PC, all of my controller settings were there when I reinstalled MSFS. 

If you use and FS Dream Team (GSX, etc.) make sure you deregister them before moving.

22 minutes ago, MarkW said:

I just went through this. I copied over some addons from my community folder but mostly just started over. 
in a nice surprise all of my hardware settings ported over when started up MSFS being backed up in the cloud  

my only regret was installing both 2020 and 2024. I should have just installed 2024. Would have saved a bunch of hassles in directing software to the right folders. 
 

what are your machine specs?

99503XD with 5070Ti + 64GB RAM. Don't care much of MSFS 2024 as of yet, as MSFS 2020 is my top priority. Really want to increase TLOD to 150 at EGLL and KJFK with Fenix/PMDG/AIG/PSXT with this machine. I'm not at 4k, rather at 1440.

I'm moving from 9900k/5.0 and 4070Ti and 32GB RAM. It's been since 2018 with exception of 4070Ti.

Edited April 16, 20251 yr by G-YMML1

Why is it that some people with powerful PCs run MSFS with TLOD so low? I have TLOD set to 250 on the PC in my signature, and I can take off and land at IniBuilds Heathrow just fine.

Edited April 16, 20251 yr by Christopher Low

I recently built a new computer and moved 2020 over.

I simply bought an external hard drive and saved all the MSFS 2020 files over to the external drive. Since I'm on a steam I had to research where some files were as in my case I don't think all the files were in the same place, e.g., I had MSFS files in my c and d drivers.  The most important folder is the community folder (where all my payware and freeware add-ons are) but I decided to find all MSFS files just in case.

I just did a clean reinstall via Steam of MSFS, and then I slowly started copying and pasting certain third party add-ons from the old community drive to the new one on new computer. I decided not to just copy and paste all folders from the old community to the new as I was worried about causing some issue.  I culled some 3rd party add-ons I didn't need.

Was pretty easy.

13 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

Why is it that some people with powerful PCs run MSFS with TLOD so low? I have TLOD set to 250 on the PC in my signature, and I can take off and land at IniBuilds Heathrow just fine.

Depending on your other settings. Mine are on ULTRA at 99% of positions. 

Also, are you sure that you are not confusing TLOD with OLOD? OLOD is 200 in my case. 

TLOD 250 and OLOD 200

1 minute ago, Christopher Low said:

TLOD 250 and OLOD 200

Then I don't understand, to be honest 🙂

I recently did this too, and while it’s not fun, it is nice to start fresh. I’d recommend pre-downloading any essential software, chipset drivers, etc. installers like Orbx, contrails, and anything else to get you up and running quickly. Then, just start fresh and redownload any addons you can’t live without. Organize your folders with addon linker. Also, make sure to run windows updates a few times after installing the basics, and do system integrity scans.